Sharp County record., 1887-12-01
Miscellaneous Items

Tightner, an extensive lu' hl'u'0
Te1arkana, died few days since OF con,
sumption. He formerly resided anu u'u
business in Little Rock
Governor Hughes has called hleeVlhS
Of the board of directors Of the Arkansas
1rdustrial University, at Little ROCK on
the 10th inst. The object is to take unuer
consideration very important matters 'na'
concern the institution. go,
]. T. Flewelyn, colored man, "niie
feeding Hangers gin at Little ROCK lew
davs ago, had the misfortune to have ms
hand and arm drawn in by the saws his
arm was so badly torn as to necessltate
amputation. The hurt was very PAINFUL
and may prove fatal.
II seems to be understood that the eS-
position at Little Rock is to be made
nermanent affair It's success has been
SO far beyond public expectation that
there IS an almost universal desire 10
make It permanent institution.
II any one doubts that the coored peo-
ple Of Arkansas are getting along reason
ably well, an investigation OF the tax
books will dispel the doubt. They are
gaining in property every year, and that
tells the whole story.
The demand for Arkansas timber IS
growing rapidly. The Pullman Palace
Car Company want 400,0 900 feet of Arkan-
sas ashlumber with which to erect special
cars, and the Sheboygan Ship Company
want 500 900 feet of oak lumber with which
to build vessels. Tho lumber industry in
the State, with such encouragement as
this, need have no fears as to its success.
s. w. Fordyce, president of the st.
Louis. Arkansas & Texas railway; S. H.
H. Clark, first vice-president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific system, and H. L. Morrill,,
general manager of the st. Louis & San
Francisco railway, have gone on bear
and turkey hunt into Southeast Arkansas.
Their car has been side-tracked at Var
ney, on the Little Rock, Mississippi River
& Texas railway.
B. w. Brooks, a colored deputy sheriff
at Texarkana, captured Henry Critchett
and two others of the gang of burglars
and housebreakers who recently forced
their way into the clothino house of Swift
Il Pong ergast and stole goods to the
amount OF 800. After the robbery the
prisoners, who claim to have just arrived
from ST. Louis, secreted themselves in the
woods near the city until the coored dep
uty, In company with another negro, be-
gan to search for them, and, finding
them. book them prisoners, capturing most
of the Stolen goods.
More ginhouses have been burned in the
State This season than any two seasons
previous.
L. w. Love was acquitted, on the charge
Of robbing the post office at Palarm
recently, in the United States Court at
Little Rock.
Tho Shiloh Church, two miles from New
port, was burned to the ground few
evenings since, and the woods were all on
fire in That vicinity.
A Georgia lumberman, who had bought
land and begun building a saw-mill on
North Cadron river, in Franklin County,
says the walnut and oak timber on that
stream is the best to be found west of the
Mississippi river.
3. A. Ramsey has been appointed
Juo''SS VI 'ho pedCe lOI Hill IOWHSQlp,
Pulaski County, by the Governor.
On Thursday, November "a, the monu-
ment erected by the Masonic fraternity
Of the State to the memory Of Past Grand
Master e. H. English will be unvailed at
Little Rock.
The street car drivers of Little Rock
are compelled to stand up sixteen hours a
day, Notwithstanding they were promised
ad1ustable seats when their stools were
recently taken from them
In Circuit Court at Little Rock Sandy
Anderson, convicted of assault with in.
tent to kill, was sentenced to ten wears in
the State pen itentiary.
Monroe County farmers are happy on
account of the good crops made this year,
which places them in better plight, pecu-
niarily, than they have been for a long
time before. Cotton is about all picked
out and the corn all gathered.
Inc Secretary of State is now eng aged
IN testing the weights and measures of
tne dlnerent counties that have been sent
m They will be approved or condemned.
ana returned as fast as the tests are
made.
= moile Miles, an inmate of the White
county poor-house. was burned to death
9 lew days ago. Her clothes caugbt ON
nre ana before assistance reached her she
mad been so badly burned that she died in
a few hours. ~'''N 1"
IN Crcuit Court at Little Rock. John
franklin, colored, who was charged with
attempting to kill his wife, was acouitted,
ms wife weakened at the last moment
ana IN consequence the evidence turnad
OUT 70 be very meager.
Mrs Ruth c. Thompson, aged seventy.
iour years, died at the residence of hor
son, Hon. Wood E. Thompson. Superin.
'enaent of Public instruction, a few NIGHTS
ago Her remains were carried to Month
's,lo and buried at her old home.
rorest fires are raising-smoke.
wm' Muse, while under the infIuenca
Of liquor, lay down on the trock in Tho
~ switcn' yards OF the Little Rock & Mem.
pms rallroad at Little Rock, a few nights
S.o' sno was run over and crushed badly.
" n'P was dislocated and a heel
: snssned off. He was sent to the bosnitaI
ous = iast accounts was still unconscious
or scnn schwartzman, living near Hardy.
'" county, lately found about thirty
pounds g OF what looks like molten silver
ne round 1t at the foot of a hill in a small
- a,ine, All in small spot. 1t is supposed
s' ~ nave been lett there by some race of In.
u'ans. 1t is thought to be seventv-five
per cent pure silver.
t;dn ruy =, SS S1ate Wheel-EHterprtse is the Ma